Joynt, 26, was also indicted on a charge of aggravated assault on a police officer and aggravated battery, both against Boleman, and a second charge of criminal attempt to commit a murder by attempting to run over Scott Robider, a friend who came to help him, in the same incident.

According to police, Joynt was a passenger in a car involved in a one-vehicle wreck on White Bluff Road. He was pulled from the car as it was sinking in a water-filled drainage ditch on Hunter Army Airfield property.

Joynt drove off in another car belonging to a friend who came to help him and drove into the officer, police said.

Boleman was hospitalized with injuries following the incident.

The indictment, returned on evidence presented by Assistant District Attorney Frank Pennington II, also charges Joynt with theft by taking of Robider's car in the incident.

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